pdfimpose.schema.cards

Cut as flash cards (question on front, answer on back).

This schema can be used when you want to print flash cards:

  • your source PDF is a list of (let’s say) A6 pages: Question 1, Answer 1, Question 2, Answer 2, Question 3, Answer 3… Note that this behavior can be changed with option –back.

  • you want to print those questions and answer on an A4 sheet of paper, and cut it to get your flash cards (questions on front, answers on back).

Example:

source, destination.

CardsImpositor

class pdfimpose.schema.cards.CardsImpositor(last: int = 0, omargin: ~pdfimpose.schema.Margins | str | ~numbers.Real | ~decimal.Decimal = <factory>, mark: list[str] = <factory>, imargin: float = 0, signature: tuple[int] = (0, 0), back: str = '')[source]

Perform imposition of source files, with the ‘card’ schema.

impose()

pdfimpose.schema.cards.impose(files, output, *, imargin=0, omargin=0, mark=None, signature=None, size=None, back='')[source]

Perform imposition of source files into an output file, to be cut as flash cards.

Parameters:

  • files (list[str]) – List of source files (as strings or io.BytesIO streams). If empty, reads from standard input.

  • output (str) – List of output file.

  • omargin (float) – Output margin, in pt. Can also be a pdfimpose.schema.Margins object.

  • imargin (float) – Input margin, in pt.

  • mark (list[str]) – List of marks to add. Only crop marks are supported (mark=['crop']); everything else is silently ignored.

  • signature (tuple[int]) – Layout of source pages on output pages. For instance, (2, 3) means that each output page will contain 2 columns and 3 rows of source pages. Incompatible with option size.

  • size (str|tuple[float]) – Size of the output page. Signature is computed to fit the page. This option is incompatible with signature.

  • back (Optional[str]) – Back sides of cards. See –back help for more information.